[Text broadsides for historic balloon ascensions]
Published: 1800
Language: fre
Format: Text
Number of pages: 22
Subjects: Balloon ascensions -- 1800-1890.; Balloons (Aircraft) -- 1800-1890.; Parachutes -- 1800-1890.
Description: French and British text-only broadsides announcing balloon ascensions (primarily from locations in Paris and London) by Hugh Bell, Charles Green, Richard Gypson, Jean Margat, Charles Mathews and others; a lecture by Gaston Tissandier; exhibitions of parachute and balloon prototypes.  Also includes a list of ascensions completed by Jean-Pierre Blanchard from 1784 to 1805; one Italian handbill for an ascent by French balloonist Eugenio Poitevin.
Notes: Forms part of: The Tissandier collection.
No known restrictions on publication.
Transfer; LC Aeronautics Division; ca. 1954.
Text in French, English, Italian.
Digital surrogates are provided for reference purposes, as per Divisional preservation policy.
Title devised by Library staff.
Forms part of: The Tissandier collection.
Includes works by various European publishers and print makers.
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